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Perhaps the most emotionally genuine moment during Sunday's long-awaited return of "Mad Men" came when usually in-control office manager Joan Holloway wept tears of frustration over being away on maternity leave.
"I just keep thinking about what's going on here," she cried to ad firm partner Lane Pryce, "and I missed it too much."
We know how she feels. After the show's 17-month absence, it took only two hours to get sucked back into the "Mad Men" universe. But the world created by Don Draper, the ad man with a double life – and the world around him – is a-changin'.
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Not only did Draper follow through on his stunning impulsive proposal and marry his young secretary Megan, he gave her a job as a junior copywriter at the firm. Meanwhile, the civil rights movement marched into the doors of Sterling Cooper Draper Price, with the country hurtling toward social upheaval as the hot summer of 1966 approaches.
The episode unfolded deliberately, deftly laying the groundwork for the season to come while providing memorable moments designed to fuel water cooler gossip at Draper's firm – and to burn up the Internet among a devoted, patient fan base forced to wait 518 days between episodes of the AMC drama.
The most talked about scene appears destined to be Megan's bizarre sex kitten song-and-dance number at the surprise 40th birthday party she threw for Don, who thrives on keeping others off-balance but hates anything out of his control. The bigger shocker came with the revelation that he told her about his secret life, the one he began as dirt-poor farm boy Dick Whitman 40 years and six months earlier.
Whether Megan, who emerged in the season opener as something of a wildcard, will keep his past quiet or use it against him is unclear. Megan is hard to pin down – as we saw quite literally with her odd approach to housecleaning toward the end of Sunday's installment.
The episode brimmed with such telling, awkward moments: Blowhard firm partner Roger Sterling, cigarette dangling from his mouth, holding Joan's child, who is almost certainly his son. Peggy Olson and Pete standing over the child's carriage – a decidedly uncomfortable image given their history as secret parents. The increasingly obnoxious Harry Crane's cringe-worthy – and overheard – bawdy talk about Megan.
More significantly, Sunday's episode offered hints that this season will delve deeper into issues of identity – whether it's the country being shaken into racial reality or Draper's unlikely new persona as a happily married man who brings his wife to the job he long ago married.
"I don't recognize that man," Peggy, who may know him best, said early on.
We're not sure what's coming next, at least for Don Draper, a man mired in the same kind illusion he peddles to consumers. We have a better idea, of course, of what's going to happen outside his world. Part of "Mad Men" creator Matthew Weiner's success rests in telling the stories of his characters set against historic backdrops like the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Kennedy Assassination.
The Season 5 opener whet our appetite for more, and proved a two-hour advertisement for the power of quality television. Luckily, now we'll only have to wait a week to see what we're missing at the office.
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A diversity and inclusion program designed for First Year Seminar students.
Date: September 24, 2019 - September 24, 2019
Time: 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Location: Cleary Family Auditorium, Kearney Hall
Hosted by the First Year Seminar Program
The goal of this event is to acknowledge the various identities students bring to campus. By enhancing their understanding of diversity and inclusion, students can more fully embrace their membership in the Fisher family and the larger Rochester community around them. Such awareness is essential to life-long learning.
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The Dodge County High School (DCHS) Indians tennis teams hosted the Hawkinsville Red Devils March 3, 2014. The boys lost two to three and the girls won five to zero.
Winners for the boys were number one singles, Jacob Danforth, six to two in the first set and six to four in the second set; number two singles, Dallas Hardin, six to zero in the first set and six to one in the second set.
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At Japan's Windows 8 Dev Days, Windows boss Steven Sinofsky dropped the news that the next preview release of Windows 8 — dubbed the Release Preview — will touch down a little more than a month from now in the first month of June.
We currently know little about what the RP will bring to the table, but having spent a few additional months in the oven compared to the Consumer Preview, which was released in February, here's hoping that various stability and UI bugs have been ironed out in this release. One thing we do know however is that Microsoft will be adding 33 more countries to the Windows Store, hopefully diminishing the amount of people exiled to the "Rest of World" part of the Windows Store.
This news suggests that Windows 8 development is well on-track for an RTM by October, as rumors have suggested. Which is a great thing, as Windows RT tablets will then be able to get their foot right in the door of the holiday market.
Just last week, Microsoft revealed that it had simplified the SKUs of Windows 8 to just two which regular consumers can purchase, and three if you count the WOA SKU, Windows RT. The other two SKUs are for developing markets and the enterprise space.


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In 2001, the Arts & Entertainment Network (A&E) produced an episode of their television documentary series Biography focusing on the history of Sesame Street.
Hosted by Harry Smith, the hour and one-half special features interviews with Loretta Long, Bob McGrath, Sonia Manzano, Caroll Spinney, Steve Whitmire, Cheryl Henson, Kevin Clash, Frank Oz, and Joan Ganz Cooney. Some of the topics discussed in the documentary include the test pilots, Jim Henson's early works, Mr. Hooper's death, the development of scripts (such as in the Season 32 hurricane episodes) and characters (specifically, Lulu) and the popularity of Elmo. Rare behind the scenes filming of episodes 3954 and 3978 is also included.
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On December 8, 2011, SCI hosted the 12th Annual River Bell Awards Luncheon at the Paducah McCracken County Convention Center, honoring Joe Pyne with the River Bell Award, Eddie Conrad with the River Legend Award and RADM Mary E. Landry (ret.) with the Distinguished Service Award.
Photos by Brad Kerr Photography.
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One of the many lasting images Graham Nash creates in his autobiography Wild Tales is of him singing with his father as the two of them walk together through their blighted Salford neighborhood in England. Even at that young age, he was fascinated with creating harmonies. It was a gift that would serve Nash well in making friends, particularly a classmate named Allan Clarke. Once the two lads discovered how well their voices blended together, they started performing at pubs and social functions. They were amazed the first time they heard an Everly Brothers song, and immediately decided to model their singing after those exquisite Phil and Don harmonies. Later, when Nash and Clarke formed The Hollies, they would establish a vocal sound that would help land them in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame by including guitarist-vocalist Tony Hicks.
Hollies fans who've always felt the band has been short-changed in the media will find a lot to like in Wild Tales. In addition to honoring his lifelong bond to Clarke, Nash praises Hicks and drummer Bobby Elliott as first-rate musicians. He credits Hicks with coming up with the banjo riff on "Stop Stop Stop" that, "imitated a balalaika and gave the record its inimitable sound. He'd done the same magic for 'Look Through Any Window' and 'Bus Stop' with those incredible guitar riffs at the beginning of each." By the mid-1960s, The Hollies were intent on not only writing all their own music, but to move beyond the standard boy-meets-girl love songs.
Eventually though, Nash felt that he and The Hollies were no longer on the same page, creatively or in terms of social and political awareness. After his ambitious "King Midas In Reverse" failed to chart as well as hoped, he sensed that the other band members no longer trusted his instincts. They rejected "Marrakesh Express" and other songs he brought in for consideration. This was right around the time he met David Crosby and Stephen Stills in the U.S., who would soon steal him away for a new band they were putting together.


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Taylor Swift Has Been Secretly Commenting on Fans' Instagram Pictures For Months [PHOTOS]
Sneaky Swift! Taylor Swift has been secretly commenting on fans' Instagram pictures for months, sometimes throwing out a hilarious one-liner and other times offering insightful, personal and heartfelt advice -- kind of like a big sister, if your big sister happens to be an international superstar.
Since Taylor's sincerity (and sense of humor) speaks for itself, we're going to present her comments below without any of our own commentary. After all, it is her words that touch so many. And as we pointed out in our die-hard fan feature, the fan-artist relationship is one that goes both ways. While it is Taylor's lyrics and music that make Swifties so passionate about her craft, it is the fans' genuine appreciation that makes Taylor so passionate about her Swifties.
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I'm very pleased to announce that Dassault Systèmes has acquired Safe Technology, Ltd., the developer of the fe-safe durability simulation application suite.
Even if you haven't used their products, you've probably heard the name – Safe Technology has been a partner of ours for over 15 years, providing a fatigue solution to Abaqus users through fe-safe. As an add-on to Abaqus/CAE, fe-safe uses proven techniques to accurately determine the fatigue life of metal components under complex cyclic loading. fe-safe combines finite element analysis results for multiple loading conditions from Abaqus with the cyclic load history to predict the life of the component. Reading from & writing to the Abaqus results files allows the users to view fatigue results in Abaqus/CAE or Abaqus/Viewer as contour plots for damage, fatigue life and safety factors. Similar interfaces are available for many other leading FEA product suites.
In addition to fe-safe, there are several complementary modules available which expand the capabilities of fe-safe to account for specific applications, such as composite materials, creep and thermomechanics.
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A Seer is a gifted wizard or witch who has the ability to see into the future with their Inner Eye. Seers predict prophecies, which are then recorded and stored in the Hall of Prophecy in the Ministry of Magic's Department of Mysteries. According to Minerva McGonagall, true Seers are extremely rare.
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Latest Leak Showing US Spying On EU Embassies Not That Surprising
from the is-this-a-surprise deptOver the weekend there were a few more "Snowden" leaks released, starting off with evidence that the US intelligence community (possibly involving the NSA, CIA and FBI) had been bugging a whole bunch of EU officials, including in their US embassies, but also in Europe as well.
Of course, that doesn't make things comfortable for the US, who will now certainly have to explain itself to a large number of allies.
The eavesdropping on the EU delegation to the US, on K Street in Washington, involved three different operations targeted on the embassy's 90 staff. Two were electronic implants and one involved the use of antennas to collect transmissions.This kind of stuff just confirms more typical intelligence agency activities. The original leaks about surveillance specifically on the public remains a much bigger concern, though I do wonder if revealing spying on allies may lead to some chillier reactions to various agreements like the upcoming TAFTA negotiations.
[....] The operation against the French mission to the UN had the covername "Blackfoot" and the one against its embassy in Washington was "Wabash". The Italian embassy in Washington was known to the NSA as both "Bruneau" and "Hemlock".
The eavesdropping of the Greek UN mission was known as "Powell" and the operation against its embassy was referred to as "Klondyke".
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Just as you can master a foreign language like Chinese, you can learn the language of interior design, says New York interior designer Alexa Hampton.
"In fact, when you look at a room, you're reading it," she says. "It's a vocabulary that you can learn."
Hampton, who is the honorary co-chair and one of the speakers at this weekend's Interior Inspirations event in Old Lyme, decodes that language in her new book, "The Language of Interior Design" [Clarkson Potter, 256 pages, $50], published earlier this month.
The books showcases 18 of her projects, including the New York apartment Hampton shares with her husband, Pavlos Papageorgiou and their twin boys, Michalis and Markos, 4, and daughter Aliki, 2.
Some of the homes are "fancy with a PH," as she puts it. "I enjoy some of the fancier aspects, sometimes for their sheer improbability."
But she offers plenty of down-to-earth insights on furniture plans, lighting, fabric and seating.
Most helpfully, Hampton breaks the design process into four basic elements: contrast, proportion, color and balance.
Hampton equates contrast with a verb — the tension and action that keep the eye engaged and moving around a room. Proportion serves as the grammar — the spatial relationships in a room. Color would be the descriptive adjectives. Finally, balance, which underlies the entire composition, gives each item relevance and meaning. It involves the relationships of textures and colors, the yin-and-yang interplay between old and new, between masculine and feminine; between formality and tradition and comfort and approachability.
During an interview last week — the day of her tenth wedding anniversary, which she was spending away from her husband at the Fall Furniture Market in High Point, N.C. — Hampton laughed that she had been "muscled" into writing the book, which was co-authored by Jill Kirchner Simpson, with gorgeous photographs by Scott Frances.
Even so, it's clear Hamtpon's ideas on the vocabulary of design percolated for quite a while. Seven years before even starting on the book, she says, she registered the domain name she would use for its title.
Childhood Homes
Hampton doesn't plan to focus on her book when she speaks Saturday at 2 p.m. at Interior Inspirations, an event she is co-chairing with her aunt, New York interior designer Paula Perlini.
Instead, she plans to talk about the homes she grew up in.
"We are terribly influenced by our families and how we grew up," Hampton says. "You either grow toward your parents or away from them."
In her talk, she plans to show her parents' apartments of various vintages, including the swinging '60s Austin Powers style, as well as several projects she worked on with her father, renowned designer Mark Hampton who worked extensively at the White House, among other projects. When he died at 58 in 1998, she became his company's chief executive, at age 28.
"You would bark with laughter if you could see that first apartment," says Hampton, now 39. "It was so humble."
There are pieces, she says, that pop up over and over again in her parents' homes — including a red lacquer wedding chest from Thailand, where her mother, Duane Hampton, and her aunt, Perlini, lived for a year when they were young.
"My parents always used that as a coffee table," Hampton says, adding that she believes it's essential to create environments "that don't alienate those heartfelt, beloved pieces."
"I like to joke that I tell my clients to get rid of everything," she says. "But that's not the way we live. We need those artifacts of our life around us."
Likewise, there are the chairs her parents bought long ago from The Door Store — "nothing you'd think would be in the fabulous home of the fabulous Mark Hampton!" she says. But there they were, and there they still are.
Symmetry And Obelisks
In her own designs, Hampton says she tries to veer away from a signature look — "I want to be versatile and speak the language of design of the person for whom I'm working."
But favored characteristics do recur. She is partial to symmetrical furniture placement ("Sometimes I'm teased by my office mates that I'm not able to break out of 90-degree angles"). Rooms she designs typically include a mix of furniture with legs and skirted pieces. She likes ebonized treatments and Greek key designs.
And, she says, "I've never met an obelisk I didn't want. If I can buy one for you or me, I'll do it. Ultimately it's about living vicariously."
For more from my conversation with Alexa Hampton, go to my CT DIGS blog, at http://www.courant.com/ctdigs.
Interior Inspirations
Eight interior designers are creating room vignettes for Interior Inspirations, a design weekend sponsored by the Child & Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut.
They are Paula Perlini of New York; Ellen V. White of Boxwood Interiors in Old Lyme; Victoria Vandamm of Vandamm Interiors in Greenwich; Melissa Lindsay of Pimlico in New Canaan; Melissa Barbierii, based in Greenwich and Essex; Hannah Childs of Hannah Childs Inerior Design in Old Lyme; Lawrence Hamre of Lawrence Hamre Designs in Essex; and Richard Ott of Richard Ott Interior Spaces in Bloomfield.
The show runs today and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Lyme Art Association, 90 Lyme St., Old Lyme. Tickets are $25, $20 in advance.
The event includes a boutique and a speakers series. Honorary co-chair Alexa Hampton will speak Saturday at 2 p.m. and sign copies of her new book, "The Language of Interior Design." Other speakers include landscape artist Louis Raymond today at 11 a.m.; New York designer Larry Laslo today at 2 p.m.; designer and lifestyle author Alexandra Stoddard on "Creating an Inspired Home" Saturday at 11 a.m.; as well as a designer roundtable today at 4 p.m. Tickets for each talk are $10. A three-day pass for all events is $75.
Call Judy Lovelace at 860-443-2896, Ext. 901, or go to http://www.InteriorInspirations.org or http://www.cfapress.org.
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Police say driver was drunk and high on heroin when truck killed Middleborough woman, 18
WAREHAM — The alleged drunk driver who caused a two-car crash that killed a female Gordon College student told authorities she used heroin, drank alcohol for hours, and then fought with her passenger for control of the steering wheel seconds before the fatal collision on Route 44 Saturday morning.
Kathleen Allen pleaded not guilty to motor vehicle homicide while drunk and other charges in Wareham District Court where the 23-year-old Middleborough woman was ordered held on $100,000 cash bail. Bail on three other criminal cases was revoked.
Allen, 23, is accused of being under the influence while driving a 2004 Dodge pickup that slammed into a Hyundai sedan being driven by 18-year-old Monica DeMello, a Middleborough resident and a freshman at the North Shore Christian college.
DeMello's car was crushed and she was pronounced dead at the scene.
Allen's passenger, whose name was not immediately available, was badly injured when the pickup truck rolled four or five times after it smashed into DeMello's car and had to be taken by medical helicopter to Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Allen was treated at a local hospital for bruises suffered during the crash and released.
Before Allen's court appearance today, family spokesman Ryan Benharris spoke briefly about DeMello, who had come home to celebrate Easter with her family.
"The family is absolutely devastated. They loved everything about her. This is a young woman who never did anything wrong in her entire life,'' Benharris said. "She never drank. She never smoked cigarettes. She was a highly religious woman. She is going to be missed deeply. It's absolutely devastating.''
According to Lakeville police, officers responded to Route 44 slightly east of the intersection with Millenium Circle to find two overturned vehicles. DeMello, who was from Middleborough, was pronounced dead at the scene.
In court today, Plymouth Assistant District Attorney Mary Nguyen said Allen recorded a blood alcohol level of 0.14 after the crash; 0.08 is the legal limit in Massachusetts. Allen also told police she had injected herself with heroin and drank heavily between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. Friday night, the prosecutor said.
Also prior to the crash, Nguyen said that Middleborough police were twice called to investigate complaints about Allen's disruptive behavior at her home and she was later spotted driving a vehicle with her boyfriend.
At the time of the crash, the prosecutor said that Allen told police that while she was driving the truck on Route 44, she dropped a cigarette.
She bent down to pick it up, and then realized that she had crossed the yellow line and was heading towards incoming traffic, and that she tried to steer the vehicle safely into a parking lot, according to authorities.
But at the same time, Nguyen said, the passenger had grabbed hold of the wheel and was trying to steer the vehicle to safety herself, putting both women in a struggle to control the truck.
Allen' s defense attorney, Patrick O'Leary, did not challenge Judge Gregory Williams' decision to revoke Allen's bail on three pending charges or his ruling that set bail at $100,000 cash for Allen.
Demello was a freshman who was studying psychology at Gordon College, in Wenham.
In a statement, the president of the college, called Demello's death ''a tragedy and a shock.''
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From within the land of musicals, the musical Anything Goes has made its presence known for over nine decades and it is a highly popular musical, a comedy that delights viewers with its hilarious antics. The musical itself had music as well as lyrics written by Cole Porter and the story is based on a book written by the fabled P.G Wodehouse, renowned for his marvelous 'comedy' fiction and Guy Bolton. The story was adapted and revised by a team made up of Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay so as to fit the musical. The basic storyline of this plays follows the various mad antics of one Billy Crocker who is basically a stowaway on an ocean liner, which is the setting for the whole musical, and his love for the heiress Hope Harcourt who is, unfortunately, more or less engaged to Lord Evelyn Oakleigh. Billy Crocker is then assisted by a singer, Reno Sweeney, and a thug, Moonface Martin commonly known as Public Enemy #13. In short, a musical on a story by P.G Wodehouse, the epitome of classic English humor, is more than enough reason to justify the purchase of Anything Goes tickets.This fabulous musical also resulted in the introduction of songs like Anything Goes, I Get A Kick Out of You and You're the Top. The musical debuted occurred in 1934 in what is present day Neil Simon Theatre, known as the Alvin those days, on Broadway. This musical has been subject to revival various times in both the US and the UK and it is also a popular choice for plays produced in both schools and in neighborhoods and communities. The title of the play itself was subject to several changes - the final title's birth is pretty much theatre legend. Why? Because in the haste in which the show was 'revamped' due to several reasons that include changing of the story due to a recent ocean liner accident, which was unfortunate for the play since the ocean liner in the play was in a near-accident situation, the name came up when an exasperated member of the production asked how they were going to get the first act ready before the play - one of the producers responded by 'anything goes!' and before he knew it, the name was labeled on this musical.The full story behind the musical is epic in itself - and it shall be described for the reader's convenience. The story begins with Billy Crocker, a Wall Street broker, falling in love with a girl he meets in a taxi, a girl whose identity he doesn't know. Coincidentally, Billy's boss, Elisha, and his friend, Reno Sweeney who is a nightclub singer are leaving for London aboard the ocean liner, S.S American. It is during this farewell that Billy sees the so-called mysterious girl who he fell in love with boarding the ocean liner - and finds out that she is Hope Harcourt, an heiress traveling alongwith her mother and fiancé, Lord Evelyn Oakleigh - a British noble. As such, Billy stows away on the ship side by side with a faux minister and missionary who are actually Moonface Martine, labeled as Public Enemy #13 and his friend, Bonnie. These two characters leave behind the actual ship's chaplain as well as Moonface's boss, Snake Eyes Johnson who is Public Enemy #1.Billy, unknowingly, aids the faux missionary and minister onto the ship and in gratitude they give him Snake Eyes Johnson's passport as well as ticket but don't tell him about the original owner of both the ticket and the passport. Billy then meets up with Hope who, coincidentally, has also been thinking about Billy. However, Hope tells Billy that she prefers Billy over Evelyn but has to marry Billy - although she neglects to mention that this is due to the financial troubles faced by her family's company. Disaster strikes when the crew of this ship learn, via a cable from New York, that the Public Enemy #1 is on board the ocean liner. As such, Billy is now suspect and the duo missionary and minister reveal their identities to Billy and help disguise him anew.And as such, Billy continues on his attempt at wooing Hope with numerous antics surrounding him - including a purported affair between Lord Evelyn and Reno. Conclusively, a play that is the epitome of English humor and if that is what tickles your fancy, to use an English expression, Anything Goes tickets are what you should get.
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Homemade Doodle Paint
This is such a fun craft to do with your kids! The doodle paint is made with ingredients that most of you already have in your cabinets…so what can be better than that?! The paint is super easy to make and my kids absolutely LOVED doodling with it! The paint dries with a glittery sheen and has a puffy, raised texture to it.
Here's a list of everything you'll need on hand to create this fun doodle paint:
– Flour
– Salt
– Water
– Coloring: You can use tempera paint (wet or dry), food coloring or natural coloring agents such as beet juice, raspberry or blueberry juice reduction, etc. For mine, I used Wilton's gel food coloring because they already come in almost any color imaginable (plus I already had them in my cabinets and I loved the concept of keeping everything non-toxic – or edible – too! You just never know…kids are crazy)!
– Glass/Plastic bowls
– Spoons/Whisks
– Funnel: optional…but it helps with getting the paints into the squeeze bottles
Follow these instruction for each paint color you'd like to create!
In a bowl, mix equal parts: Flour, Water & Salt. I used 1/2 cup of each and it worked really well for the squeeze bottles I had. Mix this really well with a spoon or whisk…no clumps. You can add more or less water depending on the consistency of paint you'd like, but it seemed that an equal (or just barely less) amount of water worked the best. Once that mixture is blended well, add a smidgen of coloring…and by smidgen …I mean smidgen! The more coloring you add, the more vibrant your paints will be. Get creative here…you can create a light pink and a dark pink paint by using the same coloring…just add more or less of the color depending on the shades you want to create! You can even blend colors together to create unique colors or other colors you may not have on hand – this might require Kindergarten art theory 101 (red+blue=purple), but you can handle it! Once the paint is blended with the coloring, use your funnel to pour each paint color into it's own squeeze bottle. The paint is then ready to be put into the hands of your little Picassos. I love the fact that this paint is non-toxic and it can be made at the drop of a hat on a rainy day!
Now go make some doodle paint and make your little ones smile!
You can make/print your own simple labels to use on your paint bottles. Just click "download" below and save the file as a PDF on your computer. You can print the labels out on full sheet sticker paper, then use a 2″ circle craft punch to cut them out. Viola! Pretty doodle paint bottles.
Lil Boo & Co. Doodle Paint Labels
These paints would also be a fabulous gift for any child! If you use all dry ingredients (flour, salt, powder tempura paints), you can put the ingredients minus the water into the squeeze bottles and package 'em up really pretty. Just include simple instructions to 'just add water'!


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Tuesday, 2 June 2009
Warm baby artichokes with broad beans and mint
Something of a hiatus I know, but somehow there hasn't been that much inspiring cooking happening in my kitchen recently. Sure, there were things I could have written about but they were all a bit so-so, even the ones there were beautiful photos of didn't taste all that great. That rhubarb and custard tart I thought would look so pretty, well, it turned out a little heavy. In part I blame the vegetable gap - there are only so many roots a girl can eat. But even that won't wash as we've had pretty little lettuce fronds and spicy rocket coming from our window boxes for the past two weeks, and the organic veg box is full to the brim of lovely bright chlorophyl. So I'm searching for cooking inspiration in my photos, and while searching I remembered all the cooking we did on holiday in France. Barely three weeks ago but already it seems like an age, and I don't think I shared photos or recipes. Best of all we've now caught up and broad beans are well and truly in the shops. In fact they are even growing in my window box.
My favourite is a dish of braised baby artichoke hearts with broad beans and mint. Every year I look out for the tiny little artichokes specially for making this, and it never fails to feel like spring when you eat it, be it as a side dish or a meal in itself.
a bunch of baby artichokes - at least two per person and the smaller the better. Really ideally no more than an inch and a half in diameter
a handful of mint
a handful of broad beans each - again the smaller the better.
shallots - one or two each
olive oil, salt and pepper
white wine
First up pod your broad beans, and if the beans themselves are any bigger than your thumb nail then you'll need to take the hard casing off them too. If on the other hand you can get your hands on immature broadbeans, about an inch or two long at most, then you needn't even pod them but can cook them whole like a french bean.
Now take a long impartial look at your artichokes. How beautiful they are, right? But you're about to get as close to gutting as you ever will with a vegetable.
First up chop off the top third to half of the artichoke. It may seem wasteful but these spiny leaves aren't good to eat. At this point you want to survey the state of the inside of the artichoke itself. If the inner leaves are pointy, or there a spiny hairs which form more than a soft down in the centre then your artichokes have reached a level of maturity not ideal for this recipe. You'll need to aggressively trim out the spiky leaves and the sharp hairs or you're dinner will be rather unpalatable. If you see soft translucent petal-like leaves then all is well.
Now use a sharp paring knife to cut of the outside green leaves. You essentially want to carve around the heart itself, removing the dark green fibrous leaves but leaving the base of them intact, which is a milky spring yellow.
Then chop each artichoke in half lengthwise. It will now look roughly like the one above. Keep each one in a bowl of water with a squeeze of lemon juice to stop discolouration.
Cop the shallots finely and cook them in olive oil until translucent but not browned. Add the artichoke hearts and a glass of wine and pop the lid on, letting it gently simmer for 15-20 minutes. When the artichokes are nearly cooked (they should still retain a little bit, like asparagus) add the broad beans. At the table scatter with mint,, and season with salt, pepper and lemon juice.
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This homemade costume for kids entered our 2011 Halloween Costume Contest, and won a special prize in the Most Creative Costume nomination!
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Who's in that Tree?
Our teen daughter, that's who! This year our 13 year old went as a Haunted Tree with an Owl perched in her branches. Many hours were spent building her life-sized paper mache tree. Her owl head was made from an old knit hat, plastic masquerade mask, sheet foam and lots of feathers. She climbed into the tree from the back at the bottom. We hid the wheeled frame with paper mache tree roots (had to be on wheels due to all the layers of paper mache, making it heavier that expected). She freaked a few people out at her brother's school carnival by standing near the door and sneaking up behind them. She even had one onlooker poke her in the eye to see if she was real or a decoration, which left her pretty unimpressed.
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It's Mardi Gras or "Fat Tuesday," a celebration that marks the end of Carnival and precedes the beginning of Lent. For some interesting trivia and to learn more about the history of this fun event, click on the following link:
If you already know all the ins and outs of this annual festivity, and want to test your knowledge, you can take the quizzes at mardigrasunmasked.com/mardi-gras-trivia-challenge/ We have to warn you though, the questions are pretty tough!
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Fire of the Raging Dragon is the second novel in the series Pacific Rim Series.
The Chinese president, Tang Qhichen, also called the Raging Dragon, ordered his military forces to attack and conquer the island Itu Aba, Spratly Islands. Itu Aba belongs to Thailand. The Chinese gained control of the island. And the Taiwanese captured the Chinese ship Shemnong which is carrying military weapons. Many lives were lost and some of the remaining people on board the ship needed medical help. Shemnong requested medical assistance from the USS Vicksburg. The United States President Douglas Surber granted the request and ordered the ship to help the people on board. They discovered crimes against humanity on board the ship Shemnong. President Surber ordered for the ship to be captured and placed in United States care. This upset President Tang Qhichen and he attacked USS Vicksburg. USS Emory S. Land was near the ships and the Chinese captured the ship and demanded the United States to release Shemnong or they would kill everyone on board the ship. President Surber was torn in making a decision to let Shemnong go and ignore the crimes he saw on the ship or let Vicksburg be destroyed. But a major factor was his own daughter was a marine on board USS Vicksburg.
I immensely enjoyed reading this novel. It had a breathtaking plot and action that kept me hooked in. The novel had me feeling like this could truly happen. The crimes against humanity that was revealed in the novel could really be happening and we have no idea. It's shocking and heartbreaking that something like this could exist. I would recommend this novel to anyone who loves adventures and suspense. It would leave you entertained and thankful for the military that are committed to serving their country. They know the dangers and risks and still faithfully protect. If you're looking for a great gift for someone, then this is the new series they will enjoy to receive!
"I received this book for free from Zondervan for this review".
If you would like to purchase a copy of Fire of the Raging Dragon, then check it on Amazon.com or Zondervan.com:


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Beyoncé Releases 'Spirit' From Her Curated 'The Lion King' Album
The live action 'The Lion King' hits theaters July 19
By Tiana Timmerberg
The July 19 release date for a live action version of Disney classic The Lion King is just around the corner. With an unbelievably star-studded cast that includes Beyoncé, Donald Glover, John Oliver, Seth Rogen, Billy Eichner, and many more, fans are already freaking out.
To add excitement to the already ground-breaking release, an accompanying album curated by Beyoncé herself was also recently announced.
The album, The Lion King: The Gift, is separate from the film's soundtrack, although closely related. "Spirit" is featured on both, and no one will be surprised when we say Beyoncé absolutely killed it. In a press release, Beyoncé explained that The Lion King: The Gift will highlight current artists and African producers.
"Each song was written to reflect the film's storytelling that gives the listener a chance to imagine their own imagery, while listening to a new contemporary interpretation," she said. "It was important that the music was not only performed by the most interesting and talented artists but also produced by the best African producers."
The authenticity of the album was key to her. Beyoncé stars as Nala in the film and she sings the brand new song "Spirit." Listen to the thundering ballad in the video above.


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Tegra Tuesday Giveaway: HP Slate 7 Extreme
Are you in need of a handy 7-inch tablet?? Then step right up as TechnoBuffalo is giving away a HP Slate 7 Extreme!
Thanks to our friends at NVIDIA, TechnoBuffalo is teaming up with them for a series of giveaways called Tegra Tuesday. Every Tuesday we'll be starting a new giveaway that will run for one week where you have a chance to win a device powered by a Tegra chip. This week we're back with a HP Slate 7 Extreme. This tablet is powered by Android and features 16GB of memory, an NVIDIA 4 processor, a stylus, Android 4.2.2 and more.
And, remember, just as you can with all Tegra-powered devices, you can hit up TegraZone for all sorts of entertainment that is optimized for your device.
This giveaway is open to anyone in the world! So long as you have an address we can mail a package to, you're good to go! To enter, all you need to do is leave one (1) comment per day on this post through 11:59 p.m. PST on Tuesday, May 6, 2014. More than one comment per day will result in disqualification. The comment can be about anything. We do ask, however, that you login with either Facebook or Twitter so we have a way of communicating with you should you win.
To recap:
- Contest runs through 11:59 p.m. PST on Tuesday, May 6, 2014.
- Limit of one (1) comment/entry per day.
- Only comments on this post count towards entering the contest.
- The winner will be chosen at random from the comments by entering the final number of comments into Random.org and choosing them randomly.
Remember, the contest closes 11:59 p.m. PST on Tuesday, May 6, 2014.
Good luck, and here's hoping you win!
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Hello Friends,
We have a new dmg for the Mac Public Preview which fixes the following bugs:
- Mss tab: zoom 50%, mousing over a verse reference tag pops up the verse, but the image under the verse popup is not redrawn when the verse disappears. Same redraw problem when menus or context menus are opened over the image area, and when other windows are moved over the image.
- Printer support: Crashes when called in Editor. (No longer crashes, but printing still does not occur)
- Commandline morphology helper not forwarding keys to Command Line:
Example: WTM [ret] .dbr@ || Typing n or p or x should copy the keystroke to the CL. Focus is jumping to the dropdown menu instead of the CL. Same for BGM, SCM, etc.
- Browse Window: With Verse Tab open, when I clicking that verse up/down button in the Browse window, the Verse Tab does not update until I press it a *second* time (or, it advances the Verse Tab more than one verse). Also in multi-version mode in the Browse Window, the verse up/down button stays DOWN after it is clicked.
- Search Window crash: BGT search for ".ton", Click gen 1 1, Wtt, Scroll search results and click Rev 20:10, Crash (msg beep?)
- Verse Tab: In CNTTS click on link to anchor further down on page, click the left arrow (back) button. Crash. (also note the link had to be clicked twice before registering)
More fixes are underway, but if you're interested in testing these changes you can follow the following instructions:
- Download the test dmg here: http://edist.bibleworksllc.com/macse...3-20130116.dmg
- Run the BibleWorks 9 Mac Public Preview installer. It will instruct you to drag and copy the BibleWorks package to the OS X Applications folder. Click on the BibleWorks icon in the window and drag it onto the Applications folder in the window. When it say "An item named BibleWorks already exists..." , select Replace.
- Once the update is finished installing, you can run BibleWorks as usual.


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A former worker at Fukushima described his amazement at the emphasis on cost-cutting, time-saving, "slipshot" measures to deal with the clean-up at the crisis-stricken nuclear plant.
"I couldn't believe that such slipshod work was being done, even if it was part of stopgap measures," 48-year-old Yoshitatsu Uechi told The Asahi Shimbun.
During his work between July 2 and Dec. 6, 2012 at the plant, he was sent to fix an opening in a radioactive water storage tank—an opening that he saw was being closed with just adhesive tape.
Uechi's job was to remove the tape, cover the hole with a sealant and to cover the area with a steel plate. He told the Japanese paper he was instructed to use just four bolts to hold the steel plate, even though the plate had holes for 8.
Uechi also said that some second-hand materials were used. In addition, Asahi Shimbun reports,
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wire nets were used instead of reinforcing bars during the placement of concrete for storage tank foundations.
And to save on the sealing agent used to join metal sheets of the storage tanks, waterproof sheets were applied along the joints inside flange-type cylindrical tanks. Some of these tanks were later found to be leaking radioactive water.
Previous reporting revealed that workers at the plant were dealing with health problems, poor wages and falling morale, while a recent investigation by Reuters showed that private labor contractors in Japan were "recruiting" homeless people to work on the clean-up for less than minimum wage.
Plant operator TEPCO has been slammed for mishap after mishap in what has been described as a "permanent crisis" that demands a global take-over.


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Hey Rick, has Bill sent you the new catalogue of heads. hes been pretty clever of late coming up with a new head that pushes a Ridgid Sonde down the line. As for the interchangeable head one, cant wait to order one in. Come on Billy boy, I dont get commission for sharing with the boys here. Get the videos happening
No announcement yet.
Sydney Bill's new toys
new posts
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Director, Mr Drains Plumbing Services - Sydney & The Jetters Edge/Mustang Nozzles
Re: Sydney Bill's new toys
Flip through catalogue
More new toys coming soon....Regards, Bill
The definition of Insanity: "Doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result."
Albert Einstein
Re: Sydney Bill's new toys
so is christmas
rick.phoebe it is
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Heads named after the space shuttles.Ron Hasil Lic #058-160417
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Re: Sydney Bill's new toys
They are in production and won't unscrew, unless you want them too.
Plumbers loved the Screwdriver head but didn't like it when it would wear out so we fixed the problem by making the replacement head. This means they can wear out a tip and replace it without paying for the base and coupling. They will be finished soon.
I am hosting a Men and Machines night in my shed on Sat week. Shame you guys aren't around to see it. Here are some clips from last year and the flyer... in case you want to fly over!
We managed to source the replica cars from the Mad Max movies 1 & 2 (Great Aussie Movies) plus a fantastic replica version of Eleanor...you should what that is! Along with the usual Lexus LFA, Lambo's Ferrari's, a Bell Jet Ranger, Harleys, Fort GT (40), Porsche GT3, my R35 GTR etc.
Regards, Bill
The definition of Insanity: "Doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result."
Albert Einstein
Re: Sydney Bill's new toys
bill, did your racing knowledge get you into the jetting design and manufacturing? or did your jetting career afford you the race toys.
bill, you really need to check your front brakes. looks like they're sticking causing you to go in circles.
also when i come to visit make sure to move the steering wheel back to the left. cause that's not right
looks like you're the roundup king
rick.phoebe it is
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Re: Sydney Bill's new toys
Now Rick, every business needs a promo car? We sold the red Supercharged TJEdge ute and replaced it with a slow diesel version. Double the distance between filling up.
There used to be money in selling jetting bits but now everyone else thinks they can do the same thing with cheap copies, the fun & the $ has left the building. The world economy didn't help much either.
We also sold the TJEdge 600kw, nitros sucking, R34GTR a few months ago to a cashed up miner. This was it... R34 GTR 560 KW 25 Psi 'The Jetters Edge' Project Finished - YouTube
Every time I visit the US I have to remember to drive differently too Rick, - loose left - tight right. Here are some interesting facts...
History and origin
About a quarter of the world drives on the left, and the countries that do are mostly old British colonies. This strange quirk perplexes the rest of the world; but there is a perfectly good reason.
In the past, almost everybody travelled on the left side of the road because that was the most sensible option for feudal, violent societies. Since most people are right-handed, swordsmen preferred to keep to the left in order to have their right arm nearer to an opponent and their scabbard further from him. Moreover, it reduced the chance of the scabbard (worn on the left) hitting other people.
Furthermore, a right-handed person finds it easier to mount a horse from the left side of the horse, and it would be very difficult to do otherwise if wearing a sword (which would be worn on the left). It is safer to mount and dismount towards the side of the road, rather than in the middle of traffic, so if one mounts on the left, then the horse should be ridden on the left side of the road.
In the late 1700s, however, teamsters in France and the United States began hauling farm products in big wagons pulled by several pairs of horses. These wagons had no driver's seat; instead the driver sat on the left rear horse, so he could keep his right arm free to lash the team. Since he was sitting on the left, he naturally wanted everybody to pass on the left so he could look down and make sure he kept clear of the oncoming wagon's wheels. Therefore he kept to the right side of the road.
In addition, the French Revolution of 1789 gave a huge impetus to right-hand travel in Europe. The fact is, before the Revolution, the aristocracy travelled on the left of the road, forcing the peasantry over to the right, but after the storming of the Bastille and the subsequent events, aristocrats preferred to keep a low profile and joined the peasants on the right. An official keep-right rule was introduced in Paris in 1794, more or less parallel to Denmark, where driving on the right had been made compulsory in 1793.
Later, Napoleon's conquests spread the new rightism to the Low Countries (Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg), Switzerland, Germany, Poland, Russia and many parts of Spain and Italy. The states that had resisted Napoleon kept left – Britain, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Portugal. This European division, between the left- and right-hand nations would remain fixed for more than 100 years, until after the First World War.
Although left-driving Sweden ceded Finland to right-driving Russia after the Russo-Swedish War (1808-1809), Swedish law – including traffic regulations – remained valid in Finland for another 50 years. It wasn't until 1858 that an Imperial Russian decree made Finland swap sides.
The trend among nations over the years has been toward driving on the right, but Britain has done its best to stave off global homogenisation. With the expansion of travel and road building in the 1800s, traffic regulations were made in every country. Left-hand driving was made mandatory in Britain in 1835. Countries which were part of the British Empire followed suit. This is why to this very day, India, Australasia and the former British colonies in Africa go left. An exception to the rule, however, is Egypt, which had been conquered by Napoleon before becoming a British dependency.
Although Japan was never part of the British Empire, its traffic also goes to the left. Although the origin of this habit goes back to the Edo period (1603-1867) when Samurai ruled the country, it wasn't until 1872 that this unwritten rule became more or less official. That was the year when Japan's first railway was introduced, built with technical aid from the British. Gradually, a massive network of railways and tram tracks was built, and of course all trains and trams drove on the left-hand side. Still, it took another half century till in 1924 left-side driving was clearly written in a law.
When the Dutch arrived in Indonesia in 1596, they brought along their habit of driving on the left. It wasn't until Napoleon conquered the Netherlands that the Dutch started driving on the right. Most of their colonies, however, remained on the left as did Indonesia and Suriname.
In the early years of English colonisation of North America, English driving customs were followed and the colonies drove on the left. After gaining independence from England, however, they were anxious to cast off all remaining links with their British colonial past and gradually changed to right-hand driving. (Incidentally, the influence of other European countries' nationals should not be underestimated.) The first law requiring drivers to keep right was passed in Pennsylvania in 1792, and similar laws were passed in New York in 1804 and New Jersey in 1813.
Despite the developments in the US, some parts of Canada continued to drive on the left until shortly after the Second World War. The territory controlled by the French (from Quebec to Louisiana) drove on the right, but the territory occupied by the English (British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland) kept left. British Columbia and the Atlantic provinces switched to the right in the 1920s in order to conform with the rest of Canada and the USA. Newfoundland drove on the left until 1947, and joined Canada in 1949.
In Europe, the remaining left-driving countries switched one by one to driving on the right. Portugal changed in 1920s. The change took place on the same day in the whole country, including the colonies. Territories, however, which bordered other left-driving countries were exempted. That is why Macau, Goa (now part of India) and Portuguese East Africa kept the old system. East Timor, which borders left-driving Indonesia, did change to the right though, but left-hand traffic was reintroduced by the Indonesians in 1975.
In Italy the practice of driving on the right first began in the late 1890s. The first Italian Highway Code, issued on the 30th of June 1912, stated that all vehicles had to drive on the right. Cities with a tram network, however, could retain left-hand driving if they placed warning signs at their city borders. The 1923 decree is a bit stricter, but Rome and the northern cities of Milan, Turin and Genoa could still keep left until further orders from the Ministry of Public Works. By the mid-1920s, right-hand driving became finally standard throughout the country. Rome made the change on the 1 of March 1925 and Milan on the 3rd of August 1926.
Up till the 1930s Spain lacked national traffic regulations. Some parts of the country drove on the right (e.g. Barcelona) and other parts drove on the left (e.g. Madrid). On the 1st of October 1924 Madrid switched to driving on the right.
The break-up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire caused no change: Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Hungary continued to drive on the left. Austria itself was something of a curiosity. Half the country drove on the left and half on the right. The dividing line was precisely the area affected by Napoleon's conquests in 1805.
When Germany annexed Austria in 1938, Hitler ordered that the traffic should change from the left to the right side of the road, overnight. The change threw the driving public into turmoil, because motorists were unable to see most road signs. In Vienna it proved impossible to change the trams overnight, so while all other traffic took to the right-hand side of the road, the trams continued to run on the left for several weeks. Czechoslovakia and Hungary, among the last states on the mainland of Europe to keep left, changed to the right after being invaded by Germany in 1939 and late 1944 respectively.
Meanwhile, the power of the right kept growing steadily. American cars were designed to be driven on the right by locating the drivers' controls on the vehicle's left side. With the mass production of reliable and economical cars in the United States, initial exports used the same design, and out of necessity many countries changed their rule of the road.
Gibraltar changed to right-hand traffic in 1929 and China in 1946. Korea now drives right, but only because it passed directly from Japanese colonial rule to American and Russian influence at the end of the Second World War. Pakistan also considered changing to the right in the 1960s, but ultimately decided not to do it. The main argument against the shift was that camel trains often drove through the night while their drivers were dozing. The difficulty in teaching old camels new tricks was decisive in forcing Pakistan to reject the change. Nigeria, a former British colony, had traditionally been driving on the left with British imported right-hand-drive cars, but when it gained independence, it tried to throw off its colonial past as quick as possible and shifted to driving on the right.
After the Second World War, left-driving Sweden, the odd one out in mainland Europe, felt increasing pressure to change sides in order to conform with the rest of the continent. The problem was that all their neighbours already drove on the right side and since there are a lot of small roads without border guards leading into Norway and Finland, one had to remember in which country one was.
In 1955, the Swedish government held a referendum on the introduction of right-hand driving. Although no less than 82.9% voted "no" to the plebiscite, the Swedish parliament passed a law on the conversion to right-hand driving in 1963. Finally, the change took place on Sunday, the 3rd of September 1967, at 5 o'clock in the morning.
All traffic with private motor-driven vehicles was prohibited four hours before and one hour after the conversion, in order to be able to rearrange all traffic signs. Even the army was called in to help. Also a very low speed limit was applied, which was raised in a number of steps. The whole process took about a month. After Sweden's successful changeover, Iceland changed the following year, in 1968. On 2 April 1972 Nigeria swapped sides and Ghana did the same thing in 1974.
In the 1960s, Great Britain also considered changing, but the country's conservative powers did everything they could to nip the proposal in the bud. Furthermore, the fact that it would cost billions of pounds to change everything round wasn't much of an incentive… Eventually, Britain dropped the idea. Today, only four European countries still drive on the left: the United Kingdom, Ireland, Cyprus and Malta.
On 7 September 2009 Samoa (population 189,000) became the third country ever to change from right- to left-hand driving. It had been driving on the right since it had become a German colony in the early 20th century, although it was administered by New Zealand after the First World War and gained independence in 1962. Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi wanted to swap sides to make it easier to import cheap cars from left-hand driving Japan, Australia and New Zealand.Last edited by bill2601; 10-25-2012, 03:18 PM.Regards, Bill
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What connection does the University of Baltimore have to the idyllic green slopes and steep, fir-covered foothills of Mt. Taigetos in southern Greece? That's where Dimitrios Komninos, B.S. '11, has a family farm, which produces the olives for the extra virgin olive oil he imports and distributes through his business, Greek SuperFoods LLC. On weekends, Komninos can be found selling his family's range of olives and olive oil products at local farmers markets, and during the week he runs and oversees all aspects of the business.
Komninos was first drawn to UB because of its proximity to his home and business. Once he took a tour of UB's campus, he was, as he says, "sold!" And, he adds, "so happy that the Greek Church is right across the street!" To this day, whenever he drives by the school he gets what he describes as "a proud feeling inside me."
The sense of pride Komninos feels for UB, carries over to his business and family heritage. His love for what he does shows in his commitment to his business and his passion for the quality of the products he sells.
"I am able to share with our customers and everyone in the U.S., 100 percent real extra virgin, unfiltered olive oil from our family's farm ," he says. "I feel happy and blessed to sell the best olive oil in the world for a good price and to be able to educate people on what extra virgin olive oil really is. It feels great to represent my country with such a pure product."
Komninos' experience at UB has served him well in the business world.
"I had the pleasure to interact with both professors and other students who worked in the business world. I adopted methods taught by my professors such as organizational skills and I upgraded my knowledge on international business laws," he says. "I took classes that were taught by real-life business people who provided real-life examples and experiences they had been through. Also my communication skills got better. I made a lot of connections and learned a lot just by having conversations outside of class with these individuals. If I ever needed help, the people at UB are like a family. The staff, the students and teachers are always there to lend a hand and support you."
His responsibilities as owner of Greek SuperFoods are extensive, and his role varies from day to day.
"On weekends I wake up at 5:30 a.m. and load up to go to the farmers markets to sell my olive oil and olives. During the week I visit chefs at various restaurants and pitch my olive oil to them and you can find me at places like the warehouse taking inventory," Komninos says. "I do a lot of accounting and office work, deliveries, and I'm also in charge of social media and my online sales. I like to say 'I do it all.' it just depends on which day you catch me."
Looking to the future, Komninos is thinking about graduate school and cites UB as his number one choice. He is also looking to expand the visibility of his company:
"My professional goal this year is to make more people familiar with our product and for more restaurants to start using it. I really appreciate all our customers who buy our olive oil and come back for more," he says "Also, it is a great feeling knowing chefs and restaurant owners use it and appreciate the quality."
Komninos adds that he is always looking to hire UB students who have "a passion for real food," and who are interested in an internship position. In the past year he has hired two students. As he sees it, offering internships is a way for him to give back to UB, the place where his business dreams took root and began to grow.
Learn more about Dimitri Extra Virgin Olive Oil at www.dimitriolivefarms.com.
This Merrick School of Business alumni profile was added in May 2013.


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Rifftrax: Planet of Dinosaurs: When a spaceship full of hairy people crashes on an unknown planet its not enough that the surviving members look a lot like the Starland Vocal Band (it is a help of course but not sufficient for their survival). They must forge off on a non-stop mission of wandering around doing nothing in particular not saying anything particularly noteworthy and not looking particularly attractive or interesting. However they do provide a tasty and nutritious snack for some pretty sweet looking stop-motion dinosaurs! Their routine deaths become a challenge to their intrepid captain who prefers to rule by whining equivocation and frequent rest periods. This leaves him vulnerable to a coup by the crews most hirsute member Jim who presses the enormous advantage provided him by what looks like a beard made out of 2-dollar-a-yard fun fur. Kevin Bill and Mike sharpen some sticks put on their least smelly animal furs and prepare to poke at the Planet of Dinosaurs.


text: Show Hide image Politics 6 February 2013 If Tory MPs can't decide what kind of party they want, they'll have to work it out in opposition Whatever the change, all Tories want it to be harder and faster. That is not something the Prime Minister can deliver in a coalition. Sign-up Tory MPs know that repetitive disloyalty and conspicuous party division hasten electoral defeat. Yet they cannot line up obediently behind David Cameron. The refusal by more than half of them to accept the Prime Minister's moral lead on gay marriage cannot be explained away by his granting of a free vote in parliament. It expresses a more profound reluctance to be led. It follows that some Conservatives either do not care if they lose the next election or are actively pursuing that outcome. That is less bonkers than it sounds. Coalition has deprived many Tories of any sense of ownership of the government's programme (as well as suffocating their ministerial career prospects). As their first loyalty is to the idea of being Conservative and that creed is not, in their view, paid proper respect in Downing Street, they already feel themselves to be in opposition. The usual explanation for backbench anger starts with Cameron's failure to deliver the election triumph that was advertised asthe party's reward for swallowing sickly "modernising" medicine. Another way of looking at the Conservatives' problems is not as an aftershock of defeat but as a failure to adapt to victory. The lack of a majority has hardly limited Cameron's ambition. The coalition has turned public services upside down while imposing the tightest budget squeeze in a generation. Labour is doubly confounded. The opposition lost the economic blame game in the opening months of the parliament. Only slowly are voters beginning to cite George Osborne's policies over Gordon Brown's legacy as the bigger cause of their pain. At a deeper level, the left is affronted that a crisis in capitalism has somehow generated a Conservative chancellor. That dismay is an extension of Labour's discomfort with its own record. There is near consensus in the party that Brown and Tony Blair were too deferential to Big Money. Their accommodation to Margaret Thatcher's economic legacy is seen as an intellectual surrender. Ed Miliband has no appetite for pursuing the "Blairite" model of public-services reform, with its emphasis on markets and competition. So the coalition has snatched that baton and giddily run off with it: churning out academy schools; having GPs shop for private treatments on behalf of patients; outsourcing welfare-to-work schemes and prisoner rehabilitation. Throw in Labour's vague acceptance of the need for budget constraint and it seems as if all the big battles are being waged on Conservative terms. Miliband's "one nation" alternative looks like rhetorical homoeopathy – balm that comforts only those people with a predisposition to believe. If Conservative ideas have the run of Westminster, why does Cameron look like he is losing? The obvious answer is that the ideas aren't working. The economy is stagnant. The subtleties of public-sector reform are lost in unsubtle cuts. Most people's experience will be of fewer and worse services. Downing Street is still confident that the economy is poised for recovery and that time is running out for Miliband to define himself as anything other than a whingeing spectator. Cameron's problem is that Tory MPs are not minded to accept their leader's invitations to wait patiently for fresh political winds to carry them to victory. While the left sees Cameron's ultra-Blairism as proof of ideological zeal, the right banks it as technocratic continuity from the old regime and urges more radicalism, with more aggressive assaults on Whitehall control. Labour regards Osborne's austerity plan as dogmatic butchery but noisy Conservative dissenters say spending and borrowing are still out of control. They want deeper cuts and lower taxes. Cameron cannot acquiesce to that demand without abandoning all pretence of centre-hugging moderation, the defining ambition of his leadership. There is something absurd in the complaint that the Prime Minister is inadequately Conservative when he is implementing so many Conservative ideas – market reforms, deregulation, shrinkage of the state – in impeccably Conservative fashion. But Cameron is not a natural thumper of ideological tubs. His Toryism is instinctive and uncodified. He struggles to proselytise for his beliefs because, taking them as part of the natural order, he has never interrogated them with much rigour. Cameron's hope of remaining Prime Minister rests on the belief that British voters will endure austerity if it is sold to them by a charming, mild-mannered gentleman who insists politely that there is no alternative. He stands for business as usual, only poorer than usual. It is not a cheery proposition but it may be the Tories' best chance of clinging to power. Cameron imagines himself to be a visionary leader but in reality his appeal is to that stoical strain in British culture that takes what it is given, makes do, muddles through and apologises when its toes are trodden on. Backbench Tory MPs are not so deferential. They want ideological insurgency, not managed decline. There is no agreement over what new direction the party should take – more liberty, or social reaction? Whatever the change, all want it to be harder and faster. That is not something the Prime Minister can deliver in a coalition. Besides, it is not his style. Cameron sold himself to his party and the country as the first 21st-century Conservative leader. In truth, he represents the ultimate valediction of 20th-century Conservatism – the candidate you might cook up in a laboratory with political grafts from Harold Macmillan's patrician elitism, Margaret Thatcher's economics and John Major's nostalgic moralism. If his party thinks that is a monstrous creation, it faces a huge task working out what it wants to be instead. It is the kind of work that can only be done in opposition. Rafael Behr is political columnist at the Guardian and former political editor of the New Statesman Subscribe For more great writing from our award-winning journalists subscribe for just £1 per month! This article first appeared in the 11 February 2013 issue of the New Statesman, Assange Alone SUBSCRIBE More


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Drugs and duplicity: Shemorry to be sentenced, blames hit-man
Former Charlottesville realtor Patrick S. Shemorry may have pleaded guilty to hiring a hitman to kill his estranged wife, but a new 10-page pre-sentencing memo suggests the crime was a "complete aberration" from an otherwise respectable life and that blame should not fall on Shemorry alone when he is sentenced next week.
"Shemorry never sought out someone to kill his wife," states the December 2 federal filing by Shemorry's public defender, Andrea Harris, explaining that the key witness was less a hired hitman than a veteran conman–- one who "volunteered his services."
The witness–- known to Shemorry as Darius Hampton, but actually operating under a cousin's name–- was bad news, the filing alleges, from the moment Shemorry and his wife met him in February 2009 while the couple was seeking drugs during a trip to New Orleans.
As reported in a Hook cover story following Shemorry's September 22 plea hearing, Hampton falsely told Shemorry and and his wife, Starla Knight, that his fianc©e and children had been murdered and thereby won such sympathy from the couple that they invited him to move into their two bedroom condo on Jefferson Park Avenue.
Shemorry, who worked for Keller Williams Realty, would eventually be heard on audio saying, "It's a f***ing war, and she's just a casualty. Kill Starla; she's f***ing poison." His filing, however, paints a more benevolent picture.
The filing claims that Hampton is actually Michael Allen Terry, who deserves much blame for Shemorry's situation and that he engaged in numerous criminal acts including more than a dozen felony counts relating to the identity fraud. Terry is currently incarcerated at the Albemarle Charlottesville Regional Jail with a hearing scheduled for December 3 in Charlottesville General District Court. Efforts to reach him were unsuccessful.
After Shemorry and Starla Knight separated in April 2009, the filing alleges, Knight moved to New Orleans alone, leaving a "distraught" Shemorry back in Charlottesville with his ersatz friend Terry in the condo. It was Terry, the filing alleges, who first suggested the killing, allegedly calling Knight dangerous and evil.
While Shemorry declined to take out life insurance on his estranged wife, as Terry allegedly urged, Shemorry acknowledges that he "did eventually agree" to Terry's offer to kill her. At that point, the filing states, Terry began recording their conversations.
But despite already having tape-recorded evidence of a crime in progress, the filing points out, Terry didn't immediately contact authorities. It was only after he'd accepted Shemorry's $1,200 to travel to New Orleans to find Knight and had allegedly told her of Shemorry's plot that he contacted the FBI, who set him up with a hidden camera to use when he met with Shemorry to tell him the murderous plot had been a "success."
Although FBI videos show Shemorry receiving Terry's news of his wife's death with what appears to be grim "we did what we had to do" satisfaction, the filing claims Shemorry was actually "shattered" by the plot–- and that his remorse was evident in a written statement he gave at at the time of his arrest.
"I would rather be here writing this letter in hand cuffs not knowing my future," Shemorry wrote, "than to live with her death on my conscience." The Hook has been unable to reach Knight for comment on her husband's words and deeds.
The crime stunned not only Shemorry's friends and his colleagues, but also his family members. According to the filing, the 28-year-old Shemorry, the second of four children, had a normal childhood and enjoyed Scouting as well as camping and backpacking with his family. Following his high school graduation in 2000, he volunteered for a cancer clinic, enlisted in the Air Force, and married Knight in Williamsburg in 2004–- the same year he was convicted for two "minor use of drug" offenses, the only blemishes on an otherwise clean record.
According to the filing, Shemorry's family is "in shock" at the nature of the crime to which he has pleaded guilty. Reached at her home in Leavenworth, Washington, aunt Debbie Shemorry says the young man she knew wouldn't have committed this kind of crime.
"He was a joyful child and young adult; he just had a positive energy about him," she recalls. "He had a way with words and could tell a story like nobody else could."
Debbie Shemorry recalls a teenaged Patrick driving "four or five hours" with his older brother to visit her and her family soon after he'd received his driver's license. "He made the effort," she says, expressing difficulty reconciling the family-oriented teenager with the man who currently sits behind bars awaiting sentencing.
"It doesn't make sense," she says.
The filing, however, attempts to make some sense of it.
"Absent Terry's influence in Shemorry's life," it reads, "it is unlikely Shemorry would have committed this offense."
Citing his meager criminal history and statistics that depict an unlikely recidivist, Shemorry's filing requests nine years behind bars, one year less than the maximum provided in his plea agreement. Federal Judge Norman Moon will consider that request on December 9.
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Way to blame someone else! Shemorry got and and strung out because his wife left him, so strung out that the suggestion of a drug addled buddy to let him kill your wife made sense. People get low, but normal people dont carry out plots to murder people. take some ownership of your own life and stop blaming another junkie for your mistake!


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